Housing is supposed to be the next dragonflying
However, if a player is not a collectionist, what actual gameplay does housing bring to them?
Ok, some folks love to collect and show off their mounts/pets/items
Everyone else will do in houses what?
Housing is supposed to be the centerpiece of the Midnight expansion
Is it going to be a dud?
Do you think it will crash out worse than garrisons?
Leave your prognoses
It’s a side activity… either you like it or you don’t.
There’s already a massive positive reception to it from what’s been seen and demonstrated, and there’s many looking forward to it.
If you don’t care for it it doesn’t impact you in the slightest.
And no, it’s nothing like Dragonflying…
Ok, so it IS supposed to be like a small side activity for a small group of people?
Makes sense then
Actually, would make a good prepatch addition then, i suppose
No different to mount or pet collecting, it’s there if you want to participate in it or not.
Literally has no impact on gameplay. It’s there for Role Players and enthusiats who can create elaborate stuff to do stuff in with.
I don’t think Housing will attract any players beyond those WoW already has.
Lots of games have Housing, but Housing doesn’t exist in a vacuum – it exists in relation to the particular game. And regardless of how good Housing will be in WoW, it’ll still be WoW, and I don’t think WoW is a very enticing game to non-WoW players anymore.
I think the WoW players who look forward to Housing – which is probably a wide mix of roleplayers, collectors, and builders – will be overjoyed with the feature.
It sounds like Blizzard are being a little bit visionary about the whole social element of it, which must be sweet music to the roleplayers. What Blizzard are hinting at with regards to Neighborhoods and events and shared experiences sounds like a roleplaying dream if even a fraction of it is to come true.
The sheer volume of stuff added to Housing that we’ll be able to collect in every single patch will be crazy. For people who like to collect and expand their collections – and now also be able to visibly showcase them – this’ll be a horn of plenty that will just keep on giving.
And obviously the content creators have already shown the extent to which you can express your creativity in Housing – it is basically a no-limits go-nuts experience. I wager this will have the same effect on the WoW community as when the machinima scene emerged in Vanilla.
And then I think Blizzard will monetize the feature successfully, and I think they’ll once again move the barrier for how far they’ll take monetization in WoW.
Like real commercial partnerships. That’s the one thing Blizzard haven’t been able to do with WoW because WoW is a fantasy world so you can’t have a giant Coca-Cola banner above the bank of Stormwind the way that you can have a Coca-Cola banner in many other games. But Housing is a contained and isolated experience, so could you sell a Coca-Cola wending machine on the Online Store for $25?
And then I think Housing will completely dominate the roadmap for Midnight. Yeah there’ll be zones and quests and dungeons and raids and delves. But there’ll be a lot of emphasis on fueling the initial momentum of Housing as well. Because it has to get off to a good start. It’s clearly what has to drive the player interest for Midnight – that’s why Blizzard are already rolling out the PR machine and we’re already talking about it now!
And finally I think that over time the playerbase will nudge Blizzard toward making Housing increasingly more like The Garrison. It feels inevitable. It already sounds like Blizzard have taken the first steps in that direction by being open to certain features being available through Housing, like mail boxes or transmogrifiers. And over time it’ll be more and more, and eventually it’ll be The Garrison in all but name.
I think those are my Nostradamus takes, for now.
Player housing has been a major part of many other games for quite some time. MMO’s that predated World of Warcraft embraced it as a feature, even. It will be quite popular, especially with how expansive it is set to be.
Roleplayers in particular will make good use of it but that isn’t the only demographic that will thrive. There’s a lot of gamers who simply like the idea of having a little slice of the game world to call their own that they can decorate as they see fit.
It’ll also boost the economy as both furniture and crafting materials will be sought out.
Don’t worry. Housing will only take effort once, and afterwards it’s gonna be a permanent feature that uses assets that are gonna be created anyway to make the cities/ambience/etc.
Housing is fine. It’s a MMORPG in the end, not a Moba or something
Who knows ,seeing is believing .I will only make my opinion once it is available in game and not some YouTube dude praising it .
It’s not meant to be a centerpiece of an expansion. It is just one of the features and we will know other features when they announce it. They opened a brand new office and hired brand new team to just work on housing so it shouldn’t affect the actual normal conent you get with every expansion and you should expect to have as much to do as you have now in TWW without bothering with your house.
dont care about housing
Depends on how good the system is honestly. There are a lot of people in otger games that are really into that atuff, so this might be a market for them. Also marketing. If Blizzard are feeling confident about this new system they should really be in your face with it to try and attract those players. However the “only 2 zones for now” will probably be a bit of a hiderance and will fail to get the ball rolling off the bat.
I already play WoW and I like collecting stuff, so this will be a net possitive for me.
There’s more dooming in that original post than Doom itself. People have been asking for that since before the game came out 
. They’ve been working on it for years and you’re not gonna lose your raid tier or anything. You don’t have to engage and you’ll still have plenty of content. It’s just that it’ll be the focus like other things currently are now and you’ll still be able to play the stuff you do like. In fact you’ll be progressing the house just by… playing the game as you already have been.
It isn’t. It’s an optional piece of content you can skip completely if you want.
No and No. Housing has allot more going on with it in terms of customizing options and collectable rewards for it in the open world in both old and new content.
I hope that there will be loot drops added to previous expansion. I know Blizzard said that they willl unlock stuff from older expansions retroactively, but I wish I had a reason for farming legacy content again.
PS The ice throne from ICC should 1000% be a thing you could unlock, and yes it should come with a chained Bolvar.
It’s hard to imagine that they won’t stuff a bunch of Housing cosmetics on all the various reputation vendors of old.
Not only would that encourage players to go back and do some of the old content and/or timewalking, but it would also add some solid gold sinks to the game and make the WoW Token sales go brrrrrrrrrrrr.
Will see. My money is that it will be monetized Af, but hey Blizzard could surprise you every once in a while.
Like most other things in current wow that does nothing for character power progression, it will likely fall into the “do once and forget”- content catagory for a very large amount of players.
Its a waste of development time.
Housing is bigger then dragonflight.Videos asure me they been working on housing for years.They aim it to bee evergreen feature.I think wow will have more people subing cause of housing.
It’s like pet battles - some ppl will love it and invest most of their time into it, others will utterly ignore it. After trying them out, I’ve ignores pet battles… once we get housing in elven lands, I might try that out, but not before, but I think a lot more ppl will be interested in player housing than in WoW pokemon.
ERPers are going to have the best day of their little lives over the housing stuff!